Wagon-brake



(No Model.)

A. KEEVER & F. REMY.

WAGON BRAKE.

No. 353,685. Patented Dec. 7, 1886.

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NITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

AARON KEEVER AND FREDRICK REMY, OF ASHLAND, OHIO.

WAGON- BRAKE.

SPEC'IPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 353,685, dated December 7, 1886.

Application filed August 14, 1886. Serial No. 210,869. (No model.) 7

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, AARON KEEVER and FREDRICK REMY, citizens of the United States, residing at Ashland, county of Ashland, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vagon- Brakes; and we do hereby declare the following to be a description of the same and of the manner of constructing and using the invention in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it appertains to construct and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the specification, the principle of the invention being herein explained and the best mode in which we have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from otherinventions.

Our invention is an improvement in wagonbrakes, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

A is a cross-bar rigid on the hounds B of the rear truck.

0 is the brake-bar extending across from wheel to wheel, and suspended under the hounds to crossbar A by loose links 0. Said bar is provided with brake-blocks, as usual.

D is a rock-shaft journaled in staples d, secured to the rear truckaxle. Said shaft has shoulders d, to prevent its lateral movement The inner end of said shaft has the crank-arm (P, at the ex tremity of which is loosely pivoted the link E, said link rigidly attached to brakebar O.

The outer end of rock-shaft D is provided with arm a, projecting from shaft D in a virtually opposite direction from crank-arm d At the outer extremity of arm 6 is pivoted the ratchetlink F, adapted to lock in with lip f, rigid on cross-bar A. The forward extremity ofratchet-link F is loosely hooked in an eye formed in lever G at a point somewhat removed from the fulcrum-point of said lever on cross-bar A. Said lever extends horizontally outwardly from its fulcrum-point, and may be of any desired length, and is also sufficiently loosely geared at its said fulcrumpoint to permit ratchet-link F being easily lifted from its looking with lip f.

The obvious working of this brake device, as described, is such as to demand no further attempted description.

We pass, therefore, immediately to what we claim, as follows:

1. The combination, with brake-bar C and cross-bar A, of a hand-lever, ratchet-link F, and intermediate mechanism connecting the latter with the brake-bar, said ratchet-link locking with said cross-bar, substantially as set forth.

2: The combination, with brake-bar O and cross-bar A, of a hand-lever, ratchet-link F, and intermediate mechanism connecting the latter with the brakebar, said cross-bar provided with lip f, with which said ratchet-link engages, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with cross-bar A, rigidly secured to the hounds, of a lever, G, pivoted to said cross-bar, and ratchet-link F, interlocking with said crossbar, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, with brake-bar 0, connected by link E to rock-shaft D, of cross-bar A, connected to said rock-shaft by ratchet-link A F and lever G, said link adapted to lock in with lip f on said crossbar, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination,with brakebar O, linked to rock shalt D, and cross-bar A, provided with lip f, and lever G, of ratchet-link F, connecting said lever with said rock-shaft, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination, as described, of brakebar 0, link E, rook-shaft D, ratchet-link F, and cross-bar A, provided with lip f, and lever G, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing to be our invention we have hereunto set our hands this 7th day of August, A. D. 1886.

AARON KEEVER. FREDRIOK REMY. \Vitnesses:

Tnos. B. HALL, WM. R. PEARSON. 

